Technophiles rely on Jeff Jankelovits at Mobile Audio Specialists in Manhattan to kit their cars out with complete multimedia systems.
Mr. Modlin said that the current owners — identified in city records as Jessica Klein, a television writer and producer, and her husband, Isaac Levenbrown, who designs and builds multimedia systems — spent several hundred thousand dollars restoring and customizing the apartment.
Self-paced and personalized are bywords of the service, said Yechiam Halevy, president and chief executive of BeyondGuide, a technology company in Rockville, Md., that got its start creating interactive multimedia systems for museums.
Among those eagerly exploiting that space is Professor Bob Stone, chair of interactive multimedia systems at the University of Birmingham, and another British veteran of the 1990s boom and bust.
In the future, more homes will come with a built-in Internet connections and multimedia systems, said Ross Heitzmann, director of business development for the National Association of Home Builders Research Center.
@donschindler After a previous life as singer songwriter and chief protagonist of a rock group, Pen became a student in 2005 at London Met and got an MSc Multimedia Systems (Dist).
[C6.] All-in-One Entertainment Devican New multimedia systems can record, store and manage music, movies and television shows, and showcase them on high-definition screens and in surround-sound audio, all with a click of the remote.
Harman, based in Stamford, Conn., and a maker of such systems for cars, has created a pair of high-end multimedia systems due out this year that use full-fledged PC chips from Intel and Nvidia.
Meanwhile, the e-Golf Touch concept was also unveiled at the Las Vegas event, previewing the VW Group's forthcoming multimedia systems with a large touch interface, bespoke menus, advanced phone integration plus state-of-the-art voice and gesture controls.
